Conscience

QUOTES

Conscience: the inner voice that tells us that someone may be looking.
 H L Mencken
 A Little Book in C major, 1916

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
 Polybius
 -160

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
 Euripides
 -428

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
 Samuel Butler
 Further Extracts, 1934

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
 Lillian Hellman
 1952

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Hamlet, 1601

See Also Character

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